Wade Boggs: A Man Finds His Field

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Wade Boggs is a real man; a man's man. He led the major leagues in batting for five seasons, hit better than .350 fours years in a row, and sported one of the greatest mustaches in man history. Boggs also ate a whole chicken before every game, took batting and fielding practice at the same time every day – 117 ground balls, no more, no less – and even pitched when called upon, utilizing the difficult knuckleball, because he's that kind of man.

When Boggs won the World Series, he didn't just jog to the locker room. No, he rode off the field on the back of a horse. But even that wasn't enough to satisfy this man. In 1998, he hit the first home run in Rays history, and hit another to join the exclusive 3,000-hit club the next season. Then he was honored with enshrinement to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

Now Boggs owns the Field of Dreams from Field of Dreams with the film's star, James Earl Jones. The two men will turn the field into a youth baseball complex, so that boys and girls from all over America will come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom, to play the game of baseball. And when they get there, they'll find Wade Boggs: the man.